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...author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great American Songbook. His songs lasted well into the Age of Rock, with '60s hits in revival (Bobby Darin's rockin' "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," Frank Ifield's yodelin' "I Remember You") and original versions ("Moon River" and "The Days of Wine and Roses," both Oscar winners...
...cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
...look somewhat askance at people who do extraordinary things. How many people have you run into who confess that they might have become architects, if only? Same way with movie directors, with people who were good at writing in high school and so on. We need to believe that Frank Gehry (or Sydney Pollack) just got a little luckier than we did. And they need to pretend the same thing, lest they be mistaken for egomaniacs. On the other hand, if you?re good at something and have the opportunities to keep going (architectural firms are not for nothing called...
...calls "a fantastic opportunity." "We want people to understand that they are going to save a lot of money when it comes to prescription drugs," Bush told dozens of elderly who had gathered at Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Community College for enrollment help from government officials, as loudspeakers played Frank Sinatra's "Young At Heart...